Acculturating Soviet Youth: A Bilingual Youth Consumer Education Program


 

Publication Date: December 1981

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Robert A. Daniels

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Social Services; Jewish Organizations

Type: Report

Coverage: Massachusetts

Abstract:

This article looks at a bilingual youth consumer education program for Soviet immigrants. The author states that the bi-lingual component in the program was seen as an essential ingredient for learning in both social and individual concerns. Comfort with one's language provides a model for less anxiety and becomes a haven to be turned to in a society that often feels new and strange and that sometimes denigrates plurality and underscores homogenization.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 58:2.